How long does it take to read Blood and Thunder?
Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides takes about 11 hours 1 minute to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 1 minute
A week or two of reading
First published 2006. 601 pages, about 165,275 words.
23 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 18 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 1 minute |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 53 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Praise for Blood and Thunder"Kit Carson's role in the conquest of the Navajo during and after the Civil War remains one of the most dramatic and significant episodes in the history of the American West. Hampton Sides portrays Carson in the larger context of the conquest of the entire West, including his frequent and often lethal encounters with hostile Native Americans. Unusually, Sides gives full voice to Indian leaders themselves about their trials and tribulations in their dealings with the whites. Here is a national hero on the level of Daniel Boone, presented with all of his flaws and virtues, in the context of American people's belief that it was their Manifest Destiny to occupy the entire West."--Howard Lamar, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University and editor of The New Encyclopedia of the American West"The story of the American West has seldom been told with such intimacy and immediacy. Legendary figures like Kit Carson leap to life and history moves at a pulse-pounding pace--sweeping the reader along with it. Hampton Sides is a terrific storyteller."--Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt"Hampton Sides doesn't just write a book, he transports the reader to another time and place. With his keen sense of drama and his crackling writing style, this master storyteller has bequeathed us a majestic history of the Old West."--James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys"Blood and Thunder is a big-hearted book whose subject is as expansive as they come. Hampton Sides tackles it with naked pleasure and narrative cunning: In his telling, the vast saga of America's westward push has a logical center. The dusty town of Santa Fe becomes the nexus around which swirl the fortunes and strategies of a mixed set of serious overachievers, from Kit Carson, the original mountain man, to James K. Polk, the enigmatic president whose achievements, in the dreaded name of Manifest Destiny, were almost biblical in scope. Sides is alive to the…
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life, Indians of North America, Military History, Navajo Indians, Wars, United States
